Likewise, the Guitar would have never taken the center stage in music had it continued to be drowned out in Jazz ensembles by the Piano and Trumpet. Electrification changed the face of music itself and brought the lowly guitar to the centerpiece of modern music.
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I don't think that has changed too much. Elite culture has evolved beyond the grasp of the common regardless.
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that's exactly my point. elite culture was never within the grasp of the common; and for most of human history it was the only culture. Then our elite tried to adapt literature to the needs of the mass, and now there neither an elite nor a culture
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to reach more than that (=mass market for novels) you had to throw the first 3000 years of western culture overboard (and further, there may be a hard cap on absolute number as well as limits on ability, b/c you can't keep even 20% coordinated in a nation of 300M)
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